Russian FaceApp Developers Address Privacy Concerns Regarding Rights to User Photos

Russian FaceApp Developers Address Privacy Concerns Regarding Rights to User Photos
An undated demonstration of how FaceApp can be used to view different hair colors. Courtesy of FaceApp
Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
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The Russian creators of a popular mobile face editing application addressed scrutiny over its seemingly indefinite ownership of all photos uploaded to its server, the company revealed on July 17.

Wireless Lab is trying to ease privacy concerns about its terms and conditions that state the developers based in St Petersburg provide FaceApp on the condition it has a “perpetual, irrevocable, non exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide” right to “use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate” any user content, username, and real name without paying compensation.

Richard Szabo
Richard Szabo
Editor/Reporter
Richard Szabo is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years' experience in news writing at mainstream and niche media organizations. He has a specialty in business, tourism, hospitality, and healthcare reporting.
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